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Corruption worse than in Bangladesh: NGO
- 12 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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In a country where corruption is as rife as it is in Cambodia, global brands must work with governments to ensure garment factories are safe and working conditions legal, international NGO Transparency International (TI) said yesterday. In Cambodia, where two workers were killed when a ceiling ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061266221/National/corruption-worse-than-in-bangladesh-ngo.html
Hundreds are given sack for Sabrina clash
- 11 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Hundreds of workers were sacked at the Sabrina Garment factory on Saturday following several violent protests at the Kampong Speu province premises and the arrest of unionists involved. The firings came after workers continued to protest outside the provincial court on Friday and Saturday demanding ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061166188/National/hundreds-are-given-sack-for-sabrina-clash.html
Sugar Firm Staff Protest Over Unpaid Wages
- 10 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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About 250 laborers working at a newly opened $90-million sugar factory complex in Kratie province-hailed by the government as a boon to Cambodia’s economy-staged a protest last Saturday morning demanding to be reimbursed for two weeks worth of unpaid wages. District governor Heng Soha acted ...
Factory Workers Demand Release of Eight After Protest
- 6 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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About 1,000 garment workers on Wednesday demonstrated outside Kompong Speu Provincial Court calling for the release of eight people arrested during a protest this week over wages at a factory supplying U.S. brand Nike, a union official said. Fighting between the workers on Monday displayed ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-workers-demand-release-of-eight-held-after-protest-29318/
Cambodian Trade Union warns protest to demand release of arrested members
- 4 June 2013
- Xinhuanet News
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Cambodian Free Trade Union of Workers (FTU) warned Tuesday to stage a protest if the authority does not release its eight members who were arrested by police on Monday during a demonstration at a Taiwanese-owned garment factory, a union leader said. FTU’s president Chea Mony ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-06/04/c_132430572.htm
7 Cambodian Workers Arrested at Nike Contractor
- 3 June 2013
- ABC News
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Cambodian police clashed Monday with workers at a factory that makes clothing for the U.S. sportswear company Nike, arresting seven, in the latest violence linked to a strike over salaries, union organizers and rights activists said. The protest at the Taiwanese-owned Sabrina (Cambodia) Garment Manufacturing plant ...
Water Cannon Crackdown on Cambodian Land Activists
- 29 May 2013
- Radio Free Asia
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Cambodian police used water cannons Wednesday to disperse around 200 women demanding a quick resolution to long-running land disputes, knocking at least three of the protesters, including a 72-year-old, unconscious. The move came two days after authorities used stun batons to disperse a protest over wages ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/land-05292013164116.html
Underage, Overworked
- 29 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Child labour is being used at a footwear factory owned by the same Taiwan-based company as Wing Star Shoes – where two workers were killed in a ceiling collapse this month – numerous employees have told the Post. A former Ying Dong employee said the ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965915/National/underage-overworked.html
Factories Asked to Voluntarily Assess Safety
- 28 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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- Better Factories Cambodia / ceiling collapse / construction / construction firms / enginering firms / Factories / Factory collapse / factory construction / Footwear / Garment factories / Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia / Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia secretary general Ken Loo / garments / GMAC / GMAC Secretary General Ken Loo / health and safety / illegal construction / International Labor Organization / Ith Sam Heng / Ken Loo / Kompong Spue / Ministry of Labor / Ministry of Labour / Ministry of Labour secretary of state Oum Mean / Ministry of of Social Affairs / Oum Mean / shoes / Social Affairs Minister Ith Sam Heng / structural audits / Top World Garment (Cambodia) Ltd. / Top World garment factory / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / Wing Star Shoes factory
The Garment Manufactures Association of Cambodia (GMAC) and International Labor Organization’s (ILO) Better Factories Cambodia yesterday asked factory owners to voluntarily conduct structural audits on their buildings in light of building collapses at two garment factories that killed two people and injured 23. “In the ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factories-asked-to-voluntarily-assess-safety-27319/
Cambodian police clash with thousands of garment workers, 23 hurt
- 27 May 2013
- Reuters
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At least 23 workers were hurt in Cambodia on Monday when police using stun batons moved in to end a protest over pay at a factory that makes clothing for U.S. sportswear company Nike , a worker and a trade union representative said. Police with riot ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/27/cambodia-garments-workers-idUSL3N0E829T20130527
Cambodia: A rising star with a falling reputation?
- 24 May 2013
- Just-Style
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Social development / Trade
- American Government / Aon Hewitt's People Risk Index 2013 / apparel workers / Better Factories Cambodia / British Embassy / Burma / Cambodian garment industry / Cambodian Government / CDC / Chinese aid / Company turnover / Contracts / Corporate responsibility / corporate social responsibility / Corruption / Council for the Development of Cambodia / CSR-sensitive brands / Electricity / electricity prices / energy / environment / EU / European Union aid / Exports / Factories / Factory collapse / Faintings / Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry / foreign investment / French Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia / French companies / Garment exports / Garment factories / Garment Industry Productivity Centre / garment manufacturers / Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia / garments / GMAC / Hong Kong / illegal strikes / ILO / Indian textile suppliers / Infrastructure / International Labor Organization / International Labor Organization's Better Factories Cambodia / job security / Ken Loo / Korea / labor / labor law / labor turnover / labour / Malaysian aid / manufacturers / mass faintings / minimum wage / minimum wage increase / Monitoring in the Dark Report / Myanmar / Phnom Penh / retailers / SHRM&P / Singapore / Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic / Taiwan / temporary contracts / textile manufacturers / textile suppliers / textile supply chain / Textiles / UK Trade and Investment office / USAID / wages / Worker Rights Consortium / workers / workers rights
Cambodia’s reputation as a standard-bearer for apparel workers’ rights is wearing thin – and yet the country is a rising star when it comes to attracting foreign investment and increasing exports. There are many reasons to deter brands and retailers from sourcing clothing in Cambodia. The Kingdom ...
http://www.just-style.com/analysis/a-rising-star-with-a-falling-reputation_id117944.aspx
Family Accepts $9000 over Collapse Death
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
- American Solidarity / American Solidarity Center director Dave Welsh / Bangladesh / compensation / construction / Dave Welsh / Factories / factory construction standards / Footwear / footwear factory / Garment Industry / garments / health and safety / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Kompong Spue / Kompong Spue province / labor / labour / shoes / Solidarity Center / Wing Star Shoe factory / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / workers rights
The family of a worker who was killed when a ceiling collapsed at Kompong Spue province footwear factory lasts week has accepted 9,000 in compensation, and in return has agreed not file a complaint against the company, the deceased’s wife said yesterday. Rim Sarouen, 22, ...
ILO to name unsafe Cambodia garment factories
- 23 May 2013
- Radio Free Asia
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The ILO is preparing to name Cambodian garment factories failing to comply with local safety requirements. The International Labour Organisation says Cambodian garment factories refusing to comply with safety requirements have one last chance before they are named and shamed. Jill Tucker, chief technical advisor for ...
H&M Says Garments Made in Cambodian Factory Without Approval
- 22 May 2013
- Bloomberg
- Economy and commerce / Exports / Trade
- Anna Eriksson / apparel factories / Bangladesh / clothing retailer / construction / Europe / Factories / factory blaze / Factory collapse / factory construction / garment indusrty / garment sector / garments / H&M / H&M garments / H&M spokeswoman Anna Eriksson / health and safety / Hennes & Mauritz AB / HMB / Hong Kong / Sears Holdings Corp / Shoe factories / shoes / Stockholm / Subcontractors / Top World garment factory / unapproved factories / Wal-Mart Stores Inc / Walmart
Hennes & Mauritz AB, Europe’s second-biggest clothing retailer, said some H&M garments were produced without its knowledge or approval at a factory in Cambodia where workers were injured in a partial building collapse this week. A supplier of the Stockholm-based company placed two minor orders with ...
Standards Building Up Safety Fears
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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When a 100-metre-long section of a Phnom Penh garment factory crumpled in on itself like a cheap pup tent, Sen Sok district officials promised an investigation. The results of that investigation, which was to have taken place more than a year ago, in March 2012, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265780/National/standards-building-up-safety-fears.html
Factory Dining Hall Collapses in Phnom Penh; 23 injured
- 21 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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The dining hall of a garment factory in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district that supplies clothes to U.S. brand Gap collapsed into a pond Monday, injuring more than 20 workers who were eating lunch, workers and officials said. The hall, which is part of Top World Garment ...
Factory Orders Staff Back to Work Amid Safety Concerns
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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- American Center for International Labor Solidarity Country Manager David Welsh / ASICS / ASICS spokesman Katsumi Funakoshi / building permits / Calmette hospital / Community Legal Education Center / Community Legal Education Center labor program head Moeun Tola / Community Legal Education Centre / Community Legal Education Centre labour programme head Moeun Tola / compensation / construction / construction standards / David Welsh / Factories / Factory collapse / factory construction / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia chairman Van Sou Leng / health and safety regulations / illegal construction / Im Chhun Lim / Japanese aid / Japanese sports brand ASICS / Katsumi Funakoshi / Kobe / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / Kompong Speu provincial construction department / Kompong Speu provincial construction department bureau chief Mam Narey / Kompong Speu provincial department of land management / Kong Pisei district / labor / labor rights / labour / labour rights / Ly Hour / Mam Narey / Minister of Land Management Im Chhun Lim / Ministry of Land Management / Moeun Tola / Phnom Penh / Shoe factories / shoes / Van Sou Leng / Wing Star factory / Wing Star Shoes / Wing Star Shoes Co Ltd / Wing Star Shoes factory representative Ly Hour / worker conditions / worker rights
Employees at a Taiwanese-owned shoe factory in Kompong Speu province where two workers were killed when one of the building’s floors collapsed on Thursday have been ordered back to work today, despite ongoing concerns from labor activists about the building’s safety. While conceding that some parts ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/factory-orders-staff-back-to-work-amid-safety-concerns-25192/
ASICS Wants Monitoring Of Cambodian Sub-Contractors After Accident
- 17 May 2013
- The Nation
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources
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The Japanese athletics brand ASICS said Friday that it would push its four Cambodian sub-contractors to join a programme that monitors conditions in garment and shoe factories. “We will strongly request to our sub-contractors in Cambodia to sign up to this programme,” Katsumi Funakoshi, ASICS ...
Cambodian factory deaths shine spotlight on conditions
- 16 May 2013
- DW
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The deaths of at least two Cambodian workers and injuries sustained by 10 colleagues at a shoe factory southwest of Phnom Penh once more shine a light on conditions in the global garment manufacturing industry. Thursday’s accident at the Wing Star Shoe factory in the Cambodian ...
http://www.dw.de/cambodian-factory-deaths-shine-spotlight-on-conditions/a-16819017
Cambodia Posts 29 pct Rise In Large-Scale Factories Last Year
- 28 March 2013
- Economy and commerce / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Investment
- Chinese aid / Factories / Hong Kong / Japanese aid / large-scale factories / macroeconomics / Malaysian aid / Minister of Industry Mine and Energy Suy Sen / small-sized enterprises / South Korean aid / Suy Sen / Taiwan / Thailand
The number of large-scale factories in Cambodia has increased by 29 percent to 907 in 2012, Minister of Industry, Mine and Energy Suy Sen said Thursday. Those large-scale enterprises employed 559,600 employees last year, a 38 percent increase from 403,560 a year earlier, he said ...
http://www.asean-china-center.org/english/2013-03/28/c_132269109.htm
Bavet prices flat
- 7 March 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Land
- Asia Real Estate Co. / Bavet town / Bonna Realty Group / Cambodia / casinos / economic lands / economic resource / economic zones / Factories / guesthouses / Ho Chi Minh City / housing areas / international border / Khmer Real Estate / land prices / land trading / Mohathan Bavet Nekareach / National Highway 1 / Phnom Penh / Restaurants / San Tong Special Economic Zone / Special Economic Zones / Svay Rieng Province / Tai Seng / VMC Real Estate Cambodia
Land prices in Bavet town in Svay Rieng province have been “stable” despite a great deal of purchasing seen in early 2013, property experts said. Nuon Rithy, general manager at the Bonna Realty Group, said there have been lots of land trading in Bavet so ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013030761788/Real-Estate/bavet-prices-flat.html
Final Wage Offer for Garment Workers Is $75
- 5 March 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Unions
- Ath Thun / Bangladesh / Cambodia / Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic Union / economic survey / Factories / Garment exports / garment industry workers / Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia / garment sector / garment workers / GMAC / health bonus / Ken Loo / Khem Ley / Laos / minimum wage / Ministry of Planning / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Unions
The Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) informed the government yesterday that their final offer in minimum wage negotiations with the country’s unions is $75 per month, $25 less than the unions had wanted. The $75 dollar figure, however, includes a $5 state-mandated health bonus, paid ...
Need for more transparency
- 28 February 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Human rights / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Social development
- accountability / Adidas / business and human rights / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / Cambodian Economy / Cambodian Labour Union Federation / consumers / Factories / Gap / garment sector / garment supply chain / H&M / International Labor Organization / labour disputes / Levis / lost wages / major manufacturersm Hacan Andersson / national project co-ordinator / Nike / Ou Virak / Producers / Puma / retailers / Som Aun / Spokesman / Swedish Embassy / total profit / transparency / Walmart / workers rights / Yim Serey Vathanak
GREATER transparency along the garment supply chain, from producers to buyers, is required in order to strengthen the accountability of retailers, factories and governments in protecting the rights of workers, Ou Virak, president of the Cambodian Center for Human Rights, said yesterday. Speaking in Phnom ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013022861656/Business/need-for-more-transparency.html
Co-op law will bolster agriculture sector: PM
- 27 February 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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WITH the passing of a law on farmers’ co-operatives, the government hopes to streng-then the country’s growing agricultural sector, Prime Minister Hun Sen said in a speech at the National Institute of Education yesterday. “In time, I believe that economic growth will be tremendous in rural ...